on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:59:02PM +1030, Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My friend has (had) Debian installed on his laptop. I got a call from him > this morning saying he can't boot his laptop anymore! I'm over his place > now and after using the rescue disk to mount his / partition, I've > discovered all that is there is /lost+found and /root/dbootstrap_settings. > > My friend admitted that he might have selected "Initialize a Linux > Partition" by mistake. That seems to be what has happened. > > Anyway, I am thinking that the only option is to reinstall debian from > scratch. But if there is any way to reverse what he has done and get the > old stuff back I want to know about it! > > I strongly suspect reinstallation is my ownly option. Can people confirm > this? I don't want to reinstall until I am sure there is no other option.
Reinstallation or recovery from backups.
BTW, this is an excellent reason to follow a rational partitioning
scheme:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
Cheers.
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